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Project Summary

Ghostwriter. It is a writing companion, not a chatbot.

A writing companion that behaves like a muse. It uses your own words as context, retrieving semantically similar fragments from your personal archive and offering stylistically aligned completions.

Rather than a chat interface, Ghostwriter is a silent collaborator—an augment to your voice, not a surrogate. It repositions AI as a tool for creative alignment and memory-based retrieval, mimicking cognitive support more than conversation. This shift counters the growing tendency to replace human interaction with chat-based automation, while surfacing deeper forms of creative alignment and memory-based retrieval that mimic cognitive support more than conversation.

Client: Near Future Laboratory
Team: Near Future Laboratory
Project Year: 2024
Project Dates: 12/23/2024
Published On: Dec 23, 2024, 17:18
Updated On: Apr 25, 2025, 10:33
Written By: Julian Bleecker
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Ghostwriter in VibeWriter Mode: It’s like tossing a medicine ball or rolling tractor tires with your AI muse..a high-intensity morning workout for your writer’s brain.
A screen shot of an early version of GhostwriterCurrent version of Ghostwriter built with Tauri (Rust + Vanilla JS)
A screen shot of an early version of GhostwriterGhostwriter in ‘Vibewriter’ mode
A screen shot of an early version of GhostwriterAn early version of Ghostwriter
An early, early version of Ghostwriter built with Tauri with Rust frontend.

Some references

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kXnsvYfaF4
https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/TIkAO4NE
https://github.com/IBM-1620/Cadetwriter/
https://core-electronics.com.au/3-channel-relay-module-shield-smart-home-for-raspberry-pi-3.html
https://core-electronics.com.au/guides/solenoid-control-with-raspberry-pi-relay/
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